The final call: evidence for stereotyped whistle of one dying common dolphin (Delphinus delphis) in Argentina
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Signature whistles are stereotyped and individually distinctive acoustic signals used as individual recognition calls, for maintaining group cohesion and during stressful situations. Here, it’s proved the occurrence of stereotyped whistles and how it changes, by an isolated adult female of short-beaked common dolphin (Delphinus delphis) kept in rehabilitation. Twenty-three hours of continuous recordings were collected until the dolphin death for hepatitis. A total of 64 whistles were analyzed along the hours and only an ascending-descending frequency contour was detected. The number of whistles decreased during the rehab period. Whistles showed a mean peak frequency contour (PFC) of 9.45 ±1.09 kHz, a mean maximum frequency value of 12.0.4 ±1.65 kHz, a mean minimum frequency of 7.04 ±1.16 kHz, a mean duration of 0.75±0.27 seconds and a number of harmonics ranging from 1 to 3. The low variability of whistles parameters along the hours and the only whistle contour found in an isolated and stressed dolphin support the hypothesis of stereotyped whistles. It is the first evidence of the use of this signal by Delphinus delphis in Southwestern Atlantic Ocean (SWAO) and is first step to understand the sound production related to the rehabilitation process.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".